Fikile Mbalula has been ignoring the mayor’s letters. Activists are now threatening legal action against the transport minister.
Commuter activist group #UniteBehind says it will launch litigation in the new year to compel the Minister of Transport to hasten the local control of commuter rail to municipalities or provincial governments, also known as devolution, if they do not see concrete progress.that the case will be against the minister and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa , and will cite the City of Cape Town.
Hill-Lewis said that there is no hope of the national government turning around passenger rail and they need to start planning for the handover process without delay. Then on 18 August, Hill-Lewis wrote to Mbalula, saying that the City had begun a feasibility study into the devolution and assignment of rail on 1 July 2022, and that a conceptual report was due at the end of September.
#UniteBehind has been calling for the devolution of commuter rail since 2017, and has been writing to the City of Cape Town since 2020, arguing that it must be pursued proactively. , which presented the metro’s transport authority’s case for devolving rail and starting the assignment process immediately. But, again, despite there being a clear crisis in commuter rail , there was no action.
According to #UniteBehind, in a 22 September 2022 letter to the City, a service level plan is “the enforcement mechanism that ensures control, monitoring and oversight over Prasa. A properly drafted and implemented service level plan will give effect to the City’s constitutional duty.”
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